Tumultuous Decade

Masato Kimura, Tosh Minohara

• Paperback | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• The 1930s was a dark period in international affairs. The Great Depression affected the economic and social circumstances of the world's major powers,... Lees meer

Japanese Society and the Politics of the North Korean Threat

Seung Hyok Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• In 1998 and in 2006, North Korea conducted ballistic missile tests that landed dangerously close to Japan. In the first case, the North Korean tests p... Lees meer

Green Japan

Carin Holroyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries around the world are trying to implement green strategi... Lees meer

The Logic of Conformity

Tomoko T Okagaki

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• In The Logic of Conformity , Tomoko T. Okagaki examines Japan's entry into the European state system in the late nineteenth century. Okagaki focuses o... Lees meer

Japan as a 'normal Country'?

• Paperback | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophisticat... Lees meer

Opening a Window to the West

Peter Ennals

• Paperback | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were ... Lees meer

Strands of Modernization

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw extraordinary transfer and diffusion of industry- and transportation-related technology, and bus... Lees meer

Harvesting State Support

Hanno Jentzsch

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and cha... Lees meer

Japan as a 'Normal Country'?

• Hardcover | Japan and Global Society
• Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic and geographically comparative discussion of the unique limitations of Japanese foreign and defence policy. Lees meer

Ethical Capitalism

• Paperback | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931) was a Japanese banker and industrialist who spearheaded the modernization of Japanese industry and finance during the Mej... Lees meer

Opening a Window to the West

Peter Ennals

• Hardcover | Engels | Japan and Global Society
• After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were ... Lees meer

Ethical Capitalism

• Hardcover | Japan and Global Society
• Ethical Capitalism is a volume of essays that tackles the thought, work, and legacy of Shibusawa Eiichi. Lees meer